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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

as Xerox. D&B was also an early adopter of information technology when it came to computers. Innovations that were first seen primarily as a means of reducing costs would go on to expand the quality and range of products and services... View Details

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Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering | Information Technology

from a company or the help desk, or it could be an automated message asking you to enter information via your phone's keypad. Smishing Again, just like phishing, but leveraging texts that contain malicious links. Baiting Baiting is built on the premise of someone... View Details

13 Apr 2022
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New School

have,” Waldron says. “You need to have an outstanding team; you have to have the right product; you have to have the business systems; you have to be the right kind of organization.” For Waldron, that means being a company with purpose.... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Ask the Expert: Star Search

excited about a job is their team, feeling they have impact on the broader company goals, and being intellectually engaged by the work. For us, that means allowing our employees to follow their passion and change roles. We call it the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

productivity but also by offering a sustainable means for families to improve the quality of their lives through their own hard work and initiative. The goal is to empower individuals so they can mobilize their talents, break the cycle of... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Gazprom Goes Global

company and biggest taxpayer,” Abdelal explains. Russia, he adds, also views Gazprom revenues as a means to make its economy less dependent on the energy sector in the long term. Abdelal notes that because natural gas is much cleaner than... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Feb 2001
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The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure

The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore personally enriching projects off the beaten track. For some busy executives, spending quality time with the family means... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 2001
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New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

professorship is both a tribute to Fitzhugh's career and a means for HBS to build upon his efforts by attracting and retaining faculty whose research focuses on issues of diversity. "Naylor Fitzhugh was a pioneer in his professional... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Mar 2019
Blog Post

"It's Important to Have a Compelling Story:" Jodi Glickman on Being Great on the Job

my super power and the only thing I'm really great at. I was a sub-par investment banker at best (four years at Goldman Sachs) and by no means a policy whiz (White House, EPA). Today I love what I do and I'm excited by the idea of growing... View Details

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it mean to be accountable? By and... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

EMC Corporation “As I plan a career relaunch, it would be hard to feel ‘successful’ if my definition of it hadn’t evolved over the years. Marriage and having children were the first events to make me reflect on the meaning of success. But... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

humanizing effect on a lot of us and on how we approach business. I always knew that success would enable me to be able to take care of my family and have control over my own destiny. But what I didnÕt realize is how much it would mean to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

willing and able to train new employees in large numbers will have an advantage in this kind of war for talent." That means that we can expect a flood of capable people, mostly women, seeking work during the coming months as the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

says. For a global company, that might mean convening employees from different teams, locations, and backgrounds for product and strategy discussions. Koning’s research doesn’t completely dismiss the merits of hackathons, incubators, and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

know-how are applied. The iPod, for example, was an example of purchased (largely non-U.S.) technological innovations combined with Apple design capability and knowledge of the U.S. market, where the vast majority have been sold. If one agrees with these hypotheses,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

stimulated by advocates of agency theory over the past two decades. And it brings to mind the old Milton Friedman axiom that the business of business is to make money (presumably more than the average for the market and for long periods of time), thereby providing the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

studies, things wrong with the world, you name it. That night we talked about what we’d each do in our career if there weren't any barriers (perceived or real). For me it was working in an area such as space technology and helping push the bounds of what it View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Dec 2020
News

The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

meaning of life and on adversity. I think it should be required reading at HBS because it will challenge students to consider how they'd behave in a true crisis. —Nick Soman (MBA 2010) View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

have built a community of alumni interested in learning more and have gotten a much clearer sense of how they think about climate change and what it means to them in their professional roles,” explains Nash. “It’s incredibly rewarding to... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

28 May 2019
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Leading Questions

slang to describe the company’s approach: tachles. (It sounds a bit like the word “tactless,” and it means “give it to me straight.”) “We tend to be really explicit with the companies we work with. There is going to be some discomfort,”... View Details

Keywords: April White

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